Large Language Models in Conflict: Knowledge, Legitimacy, and AI in Contested Territories

This project opens new directions for conceptualizing the emerging role of artificial intelligence (AI) as epistemic infrastructure in war and conflict affected contexts. It brings together diverse perspectives through a sociotechnical entry point to examine how AI systems generate, structure, and legitimize knowledge, with particular attention to the infrastructural processes that govern what becomes visible, knowable, and actionable. Ethical and legal dimensions are treated as intrinsic to these processes, and the project seeks to establish a basis for understanding how questions of law, human rights, proportionality, and accountability emerge from, and are shaped by, the ways AI infrastructures organize knowledge. It also considers how such knowledge practices affect informational security and society more broadly.